I decided to participate in the swaps at the NAME convention. You could choose whichever scale you wanted to. I decided to do the 1" scale swap and the 1/4" scale swap. For this swap, we had to make 20 like items for each scale. For my 1" scale swaps, I chose to do pizza's our of Fimo clay. I had never done it before but I found a few different tutorials on You Tube - watched them all - and then dove right in.
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| All of my naked pizzas. The tiny ones all got squished together, they were just not working out. |
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| At this stage I have used pastel chalk dust to get the crusts looking baked. |
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| All Done! They are a little bigger than a quarter, but I think they turned out pretty good for my first time. |
For the 1/4" scale swap, I ended up making 20 of the eyelash flowers that posted about back here. At the time I could not find my camera, so I used my daughters camera to get some photos to show you guys. However, she deleted them thinking I had already saved them on the computer. So I have no photos of those, but you can see the first one I made
HERE.
We were also to make 9 - 1/4" table favors to share with our table mates at one of our meals. I did a floor lamp out of beads. Again, I found the tutorial online & played around with my stock of random beads until I found something that worked. The black post is a toothpick cut to length. Very easy to do this project. I am fairly new to working with 1/4 scale items, but I just need more practice to get comfortable with it.
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| My lamps |
I am also working on getting a blog for our Mini Club up and running. if you want to take a peek, it is
here. Feel free to follow as well, it is meant to be shared. I guess that is all for now. Hopefully soon I can get all the convention photos posted.
Take Care,
